subject: Use Software to Enhance Business Performance [print this page] Use Software to Enhance Business Performance
Our culture is obsessed with enhancing performance. In sports, work, technology and everyday life, we are constantly attempting to push the boundaries of what we are capable of. However, we are most familiar with the term performance enhancing' when it comes to professional athletes. Steroids and other forms of athletic enhancements have been a problem in professional sports for years. Although steroids are clearly bad, it's hard to not empathize with the players who do them afterall, they are getting paid millions of dollars to perform at the highest level possible.
While you can't take a pill to get better at most non-athletic jobs, there are other ways to enhance your performance at work. The latest and greatest software technologies in various industries can provide you with the edge over co-workers and competing businesses. I'd like to take a look at 3 types of specific performance enhancing software solutions:
1. Project Management Software: Cutting edge project management software can provide a simple yet powerful way to make your business more efficient. This software allows users within a company to connect, collaborate and follow a project from start to finish. Instead of using a menagerie of spreadsheets, documents, and charts project software brings it all together to make for a far more productive project time line.
2. Sales Software: This type of software gives companies the power to go after and close deals through various features, including a marketing and leads suite, email and calendar management tools as well as in depth analytics. Sales software allows a company to increase productivity by putting all the pieces of the sales puzzle in one place.
3. Applicant Tracking Software: When it comes down to landing the best talent available, a company shouldn't hold back in gaining the hiring edge. Applicant tracking software is a godsend for hiring managers, internal recruiters, and RPOs. A good applicant tracking system will take what works and simply it while focusing on collaboration throughout the entire hiring process.
